per the team sports comment...
there are a lot of assholes on a team.
plus, politics is NOT sports. sports games in the grand scheme of things, don’t mean jack sh1t.
people in politics with real convictions they won’t cave on, now that’s what we’re looking for.
not someone who thinks an issue is about “politics” and out-maneuvering opponents just because they want to score a point, or be the ones in control of some oppressive new law.
A good ole boy RINO state representative walked up to me years ago and said being in the state legislature was like “being a member of a team”.
Just this summer a young man he mentored who is now my congressman spoke of being a “member of a team” led by the guy he had in for a fundraiser (John Boehner)